My husband makes his own spaghetti sauce, and I figured, if he can do it, surely I can. One of his special ingredients is Apple Vinegar. Long story short, you better use that stuff VERY sparingly.
I wanted to make Apple Pie, I had lot's of apples on their last couple of days of goodness. I get everything all ready, dough made from scratch, glaze working on the apples... get ready to put it into a pan.
Ooops, I don't have any pie pans. Alright, what do I have? Cupcake pans! Surely a tart wouldn't be that hard. Apparently, tarts have a different style of crust. By the time they were done, they had no flavor and were mostly made up of crust. Mini apple pies are not the same as their larger counterparts in actual pie pans.
I had this friend staying with me. She had gone to and graduated from Culinary school. I had high hopes in her dinner skills. Well.... there's a reason she only ever worked in sandwich shops I guess. There was a problem with EVERY meal she touched.
Spaghetti... noodles with salt. Lot's of salt.
Biscuits and gravy.... store bought biscuits with liquid gravy with too much pepper and no other flavor.
Tuna helper... comes with instructions! WAAAAY salty.
Pesto chicken salad. Runny! How does that happen?
Beef and potatoes in the crock pot. No brainer, right? 14 hours later... meat was still tough as could be and it was... guess what... Salty!! VERY salty. How does one put enough salt into that much water to get that level of salinity??
Too many more to list.
You know those days when you know you need to go shopping but you really don't feel like it, so you start throwing stuff together? I had great success with my Italian Pesto Chinese Fried Rice dish. Had some mixed rice, cooked that, rolled it around in a skillet with butter to "Americanize" it. Had creamy pesto sauce mix, made that. Instead of using the Olive Oil that I was out of, I used two Garlic Butter packs from pizza orders earlier in the week. Had Tomato and Onion... chopped them up fine. Had Vegan hotdogs that were AWFUL by themselves. Chopped them up TINY. Threw that into a skillet with some spices and garlic. Had 8 extra eggs that needed used... whipped them into the veggies and chopped it up fine. Added that mess to the rice, poured the sauce in, stirred it up, threw it on a plate, topped with Mexican Cheese. OMG was it good. My husband talked about it for 2 hours afterwards. Looked like a hot mess though. It was SO not healthy either by the time I was done with it.
But everyone knows the key to most restaurants is LOTS of butter.
